Circle of Iron
1978
film · 1978 · 4 min read
Circle of Iron
The Book of All Knowledge Is a Mirror
Directed by Richard Moore
Bruce Lee dreamed up this story before he died, and it plays as a Zen koan stretched to feature length. Cord crosses a mythic land to win the book of Enlightenment from the wizard Zetan, passing tests of desire, death, and his own mind along the way. When he finally opens the book, every page is a mirror. David Carradine plays the blind master, the monkey-man, Death, and Zetan, because every teacher Cord meets is the same teacher wearing the face he is ready to see.
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This time, watch for:
- See impermanence: what clings, what releases, what remains
- Mark the threshold: the old self dies, the ordeal transforms, the new self returns
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